From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: xah@xahlee.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!)
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:26:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83prb4lwzm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv3a817kui.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:36:04 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > * The Time, Battery, are of little use. Their functionality are
> > provided by the OS's tool bar. Again, for geeks who need it, it is
> > easy to call the command by “M-x”.
>
> I'd tend to agree.
These settings are already in a second-level menu, so how can they
possibly bother anyone? Just because Xah doesn't see any use for
them, it doesn't mean others won't. When I work on a laptop, I have
the Battery display on all the time, because Emacs lets me customize
that display in ways most OSes never will. As for Time, why should I
move my eyes to the system's display, somewhere on the fringes of the
screen, just to know what time it is?
> But I also do not remember why they were added
Mainly to advertise these features. Many users don't know Emacs has
them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-09 17:26 UTC|newest]
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2009-08-09 3:36 ` Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!) Stefan Monnier
2009-08-09 3:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 5:13 ` Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs Stefan Monnier
2009-08-09 17:20 ` Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!) Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 17:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 18:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 18:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 18:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 19:07 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 20:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 23:00 ` Fiddling with the menus Jason Rumney
2009-08-09 23:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 23:46 ` Jason Rumney
2009-08-10 1:51 ` Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!) Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-10 3:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-10 3:26 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-10 2:27 ` Fiddling with the menus Stefan Monnier
2009-08-10 2:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 5:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-09 9:51 ` CHENG Gao
2009-08-09 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 18:06 ` CHENG Gao
2009-08-09 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 18:24 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 18:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 18:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 22:54 ` Jason Rumney
2009-08-10 1:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-09 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 23:14 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-10 2:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-10 3:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-11 5:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-11 13:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 12:37 ` Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!) Florian Beck
2009-08-09 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-08-09 18:05 ` Fiddling with the menus Richard Riley
2009-08-09 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-10 2:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-10 3:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 23:09 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-09 23:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-10 0:10 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-10 2:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-10 2:34 Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!) Xah Lee
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